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MAYTIME IN MAY

ANHA

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Lovly TECHNICOLOR

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TO-MORROW-A THRILLING EPISODE OF LITHUANAN STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCISTS! "MARITE" an U.S.S. Production

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1949.

SEAT IN THE STALLS

Ida Lupino turns producer, makes

MALLY FORREST In Not Wanted.

her 'double' star

£40,000 SAVINGS USED FOR FILM

Thirty-one-year-old Ida among the 12 top box-offies hits Lupino, who left London at of the summer.

Producer ida has got

her

10 to seek and find fatae as Investment back-with diul- an actress in Hollywood, has become filmland's

now

dends.

youngest woman producer. moving performanco of 10-

the

Outstanding feature of "Not Wanted," as I saw it, is the

Her first Independent ven-

year-old Sally Forrest, but well-told leading role. ture a simple tear-jerker about an unmarried

STAR CONTRACT mother. entitled "Not

Ida Lupino picked her, an Wanted"-wan shown privately

unknown actress, because she in the West End.

Miss Lupino made this film resembled her own appearance in Hollywood on a bank loan, when she first arrived in Holly- plus

of nearly £40,000

her wood.

AR producer, Miss Lupino ravings.

She formed a company called seems to have done a Svengali Emerald Productions, after her

Not only in looks, but in per- mother, former London musical sonality, restures and dronintie comedy star, Connie Emerald.

power, the new girl in uneally By the time production was Pnished with increasing Dinan

110

had Fial dißcules-she

left 10 advertise or money exploit it.

But the picture soon adver- fised itself, and it has now been officially Ilsted in America as

Hollywood will get its own way in Denham

Justin

Making

their exit from

of her Denham Stadion the

arek Mill week Richard Attenborough Their new film as finished. in for departure

Kent, after

a week-Jeani

the last shots on "The Re. hetant Widow."

Then Dentam, a

Fights fry

thistmas -not

holiday beginning

tig on.

American stars absurdly mis- most for British characters, as has Jeanetimes happened in the Also so long as our men

are alven fake shares of

along with thi een time transatlantic cousina.

Empty rooms

W will be the next tenants Real at of the star dressing-rooms »! before Denkar which have had much This y

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very happy for the ...

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class their

1 waned.

Mar

Stewart

Launce

Olivier and

Granger. Jean

Stations?

JEANNE CRAIN

thesp

ARCH

Twi major Bruted States

foamrash te companies wil.

Term

Century re eves down

Thanh everything is still in I gather the perspecting stage. that Paramott and Twentieth |

running selective

lets of top contract stars-In case they are Wanted *The HIT good

Usts. cheerful compensation for the Denlium's future fact that should have fo rely on them at

T

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like the Ida Lapino of some 15

years ago.

FLASEBACK TO 3934

Ida Lupino 15 years nga.

Horse Laughs

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SUN ZUMEL

From DisneyJeanette

Say, did you ever notice As a result of this perform-how many horses gel into are, Sally Forrest has been Walt Disney pictures? An Kiven a star contract by Metro-expert rider, polo player and

Goldwyn-Mayer.

-London Express Service)

And the dressing-rooms

of British stars may be Olled with American volers

SHOW TALK

by HAROLD CONWAY

of the conndry

Their inries

will be paid from Hollywood. (Lendon Express Service)

WEEK-END

SCREEN FARE

The

HUA

QUEEN'S A

horse owner since boyhoodi, Walt has a special liking for the sons of Pegasus.

come

Ile puls them into his ani- mated fantasies as often ng OC- casion of the script permits, And, following the Inws and orders of caricature, they always although out comically,

In his nol always grotesquely. forthcoming RKO Radio Tech- nicolosir release, "Tho Adven- tures of Ichabod and Mr Tone" Walt enters three new sleeda in the cinema derby.

ness

Que is the famous plough- borne, Gunpowder, whose slow- sung afoot is hilarity and described by Bing Crosby. He carries Ichabod to a 11- starred rendezvous

the with for Katrina in the verle glen of Sleepy Hollow

SACK OF BONES Here is such a sack of bones and reluctance as has ever di

his mble breed. Matched against Gunpowder in sleet of tip the great black

paraged

Beadles Horseman, who TECLA to share his master's free joy In thisbert's cowering flight.

The third

in Cyril

The

of Mr

J- +3x

Potented by

equine Pain crusiera febru Toad whose exploits

Brust Rathbone. Other members of the Disney Up fable stable who come to mind ALHAMBRA) | tre the beautifully

Camer

ailugted tryin a little-known erenlures story by

tn

Marjorie Kin-that famous Jugend, Widow-

A re

COLOR BY

Technicolor

MacDONALD LASSIE

LLOYD NOLAN CLAUDE JARMAN, Jr.

Academy Award winner

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winged

"Fantasia"

and

Nothing ban

nothing

con

toku

horses, il reeing that the only race any of them could win would be one for intaghs.

the płoc

of

on itawlings, pertups the beatmaker, who brought Pecos Bl

to arf in "Metody Time." She has written,

The original is the story of but while Disney has shown woman writer

quite an Interest living in

who In of Florida thu te part befriended by boy obsessed by the fact that though he is on dan he must have a mother

etits

210

HERE COMES HAROLD LLOYD, JR.

here such na Gregory Peck farer about a frivolous heiress Harold Lloyd back in 1917

W

Paramount possibles Include Bob Hope Alan Ladd and via de Haviland rather more than

mewhere Barbara

slory MGM rings Into the Possibility Sinnwyck-1 should count her Juukary

Miss de Holl-Jeanette Mac Dunak, as ne ns "probabic

selectiun for the rol of the Innd would be most welcoine

05 author

Dne could February look fike being dara

hove biggest of all, after her Snake Pit tour

wished for but months mulded fox wur

it apparently tle forec

makes her a singer too. Amlit

That follows"

picture

A pair of cheap, horn- At Wh!

On Twentieth Century's shart nuch spevulation, my own juin

Test ade Loretta Young

Claude Jarnon, Jr plays rimmed and glassless specs Betty harn

art the bay and a pince has been | which nad their phecy as that early Spring will

fitable in Holly wound to Denhamn

Jeanne Crabs (A number ot found for Lassle.

pearance (231 117] aspiring Jon an Anglo American produc-

Their

front-rank other

stars That Wonderful Urge (ROXY

movie comedia a named tion basis

have Already Deen filming & BROADWAY) is romantic

reporter.will once more make a film Gene Tierney and Tyrone Pppearance With this company. I would power respectively. Though Madly settle for Jon-

am either of these two have done Her finely sensitive performance well by dramalie roles, they

Pky

of the unex-are much preferable in comedy preted acting triumphs of the and the aim is excellent enter- VIPU makes me wonder anew.

S:tainment. after Olivia de Havilland's fadden jump to brimnice. How many other actresses are there In Hollywood at present con- demned to chocolate-box roles but with first-rate arting talent enly awaiting the right I think the On thin polpl

and director? Hollywood compantes will get their own way.

I

How human

my in these 5th Century Fox

put by far the best of Holly

ptures, atad Paxaround,

who turn out the showr

In the wake of these cont Dames will come some of their top stars. Because Holly wood. arked by Me Earold Wilson to produce more films in England. will do so only if they can top the casts recruited here with a box-office suffener of American "names."

I have no quarrel with the poley so long as we don't have

Power mark and Gene Tierney

In

int

E:

EL newspaper

deserves

re-

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But de me they will Taral be worn by Lloyd, They will be worn by Lloyd's 18-year-old son, Hurld, Jr. when he makes has sureca sebut in Samuel Goldwyn's "Beloved Over All" The Great Dictator (KING'S) Young Lloyd claims he will

a film that

the glasses only in tils showing every few years for Goldwyn film. The muly other

TO-DAY Chaplin hasume he will don this piece of the next century.

both the comic and property will be when he and captured horrifying aspects of two of the his father appear together in o dictators of our age. If you pletura.

The

1 CTP glassen have not seen the Alm before,

If you have, 11 several pairs Lloyd wore when One good point about the do not miss it. coming 1950 invasion the stars is entertaining enough for an- he first appeared in one-reelers

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